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Principal Software Engineer

Frontend platform leader operating at scale across web and mobile systems.

I align product, design, and engineering to increase delivery speed while reducing operational risk.

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Impact

Wonder / Grubhub

Principal Software Engineer (Wonder)–Present

  • Principal IC leadership across web platform and UI systems spanning three business units, aligning performance, reliability, and developer velocity toward a unified Wonder platform.
  • Leading org-wide AI enablement patterns and guardrails that accelerate delivery while preserving production stability and operational safety.

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Grubhub)–

  • Built AI-powered migration tooling for large legacy codebases (5,000+ files), saving 3,000+ developer hours.
  • Championed AI tooling adoption: piloted services, built best practices, and trained engineers to drive org-wide productivity gains.
  • Modernized the restaurant partner web platform across a dozen+ applications by prioritizing tech debt, strengthening release and on-call, and influencing engineering practices across the org.

Staff Software Engineer (Grubhub)–

  • Provided technical guidance and reviews that raised team standards; expanded on-call from 4 → 13 engineers.
  • Owned critical restaurant partner systems across 10+ applications, improving stability with proactive monitoring, fast incident triage, and close Ops collaboration.
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Petfindervia Nerdery

Principal Software Engineer–

  • Modernized the consumer experience for speed, accessibility, and SEO across search, listings, and profiles; Speed Index improved 60% and Largest Contentful Paint reduced 46%.
  • Led a progressive migration to React, Next.js, and GraphQL with shared components and performance instrumentation, maintaining steady delivery throughout.
  • Designed a low‑friction adoption quiz flow that cut drop‑offs and delivered higher‑quality inquiries to shelters and rescues.
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CaringBridgevia Nerdery

Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Lead–

  • Mapped key user journeys, ran a focused performance audit, and shipped targeted improvements on critical paths.
  • Designed mobile-first, accessible forms and simplified flows to reduce friction and speed completion.
  • Built a shared component library in React and Next.js to standardize patterns and improve maintainability.
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About

I design and evolve frontend platforms for multi-product companies. My north star is fast, accessible interfaces and systems that are easy to change, so teams ship quickly and users feel the polish. I focus on performance, accessibility, reliability, platform scale, developer experience, and pragmatic AI to deliver measurable business outcomes.